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2 TIMES
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VOL. 40.
THE GLOW OF THE SUNSET.
THE THOUGHT PRRSHSXTED BY DR.
TALMAGE YESTERDAY.
Wlint Is the Great Want of All Is
Folly Explained—The Dewire We
Have When on the Down Grade
of Life—What Is Eosy Where Ev
erything Goes Riaht —<I't is Neces
sary to Grapple With Temptation.
Washington, Aug. 2—Dr. Talmage’s sub
ject to-day lights up the sorrows of this
life and sounds the Goepel of good cheer
for all who will receive it. His text was
Luke 24 : 29: “Abide with us, for it is to
ward evening.”
Two villagers, having concluded their
errand in Jerusalem, have started out at
the city gate and are on their way to Em
maus, the place of their residence. They
go with a sad heart. Jesais, who had been
their admiration and their joy, had been
basely massacred and entombej. As with
sad face and broken heart they pass on
their way, a stranger accosts them. They
tell him their anxieties and bitterness of
soul. He tn turn talks to them, mightily
expounding the Scriptures. He throws
over them the fascination of intelligent
conversation. They forget the time, and
notice not the objects they pass, and be
fore they are aware, have come up In
front of their house. They pause before
the entrance and attempt to persuade the
•(ranger to tarry with them. They press
upon him their hospitalities. Night is com
ing on, and he may meet a prowling wild
beast, or be obliged to He unsheltered
from the dew. He cannot go much further
now. Why not stop there, and continue
their pleasant conversation? They take
him by the arm and they insist upon his
coming In, addressing him in the words:
“Abide with us, for it 1* toward evening.”
The candles are lighted, the table is
spread, pleasant socialities are enkindled.
They rejoice in t'he presence of the
stranger guest He asks a blessing upon
the bread they eat, and he hands a piece
Os it to each. Suddenly and with over
whelming power the thought dashes upon
the astonished people—it is the Lord! And
as they sit tn breathless wonder, looking
upon the resurrected body of Jesus, he
vanished. The interview ended. He was
gone.
With gnany of us it is a bright, sun
■hlny day of prosperity. There Is not a
cloud in the sky, not a leaf rustling in
the forest. No chill in the air. But we
Cannot expect all 'this to last. He is not
an intelligent man who expects perpetual
daylight of Joy. sun will after awhile
near the horlatpn. The shadows will
lengthen. While' I speak, many, of us
stand in the verjfr hour described In the
text, “for it is toivand evening.” The re
quest for the text is appropriate for some
before me. For with them it is toward
the evening of old age. They have passed
the meridian of life. They are sometimes
•isn't led to think bow old they grc. They
cipiTOtlrrmtlon toward venerable appear
ance, they say, “Why, I’m not so old,
after all." They do, indeed, notice that
they cannot lift quite so much as once.
They cannot walk quite so fast. They
cannot road quite no well without spec
tacles. They cannot so easily recover
from a cough or any occasional ailment.
They have lost their taste for merriment.
They are, surprised at the quick passage
of the year. They say that It only seems
a little while ago that they were boys.
They are going a little down hill. There
Is something in their health, something
In their vision, something in their walk,
something in their changing associations,
something above, something beneath,
something within, to remind them that it
Is toward evening.
The great want of all such is to have
Jesus abide with them, it is a dismal
thing to be getting old without the rejuv
enating influence of religion. When wo
•ten on the down grade of life and see that
It dips to the verge of the cold river, we
want to behold some one near who will neip
us across it. When the sight loses its
jiower to glance and gather up, we need
the faith that can illumine. When we feel
the failure of th© ear, we need the clear
tones of that voice which in olden times
broke up the silence of the deaf with ca
dences of mercy. When the ax-men of
death hew down w hole forests of strength
•nd beauty around us and we are left in
solitude, we need the dove of divine mercy
to sing in our branches. When the shad
ows begin to fall and we feel that the day
is far spent, we need most of all to suppli
cate the strong, beneficent Jesus In the
prayer of the villagers, “Abide with us,
for it la toward evening."
The request of the text Is an appropriate
exclamation for all those who are ap
proached in the gloomy hour of tempta
tion. There is nothing easier than to be
good-natured when everything pleases, or
to bo humble when there la nothing to op
pose us, or forgiving when we have not
been assailed, or honest when we have no
Inducement to fraud. But yoii have felt
the grapple of some temptation. Your na
ture at somo time quaked and groaned un
der the Infernal force. You felt that the
devil was after you. You saw your
Christian graces retreating. You feared
that you would fall tn the awful wrestle
with sin and be thrown into the dust. The
gloom thickened. The first indications of
th« night were seen in all the trembling
of your soul; tn all the infernal suggestions
of satan, in all the surging up of tumultu
ous passions and excitements, you felt
with awful emphasis that It was toward
evening. In the tempted hour you need
to ask Jesus to abide with you. You can
beat back the monster that would devour
you. You can unhorse the sin that would
ride you down. You can sharpen the bat
tle-ax with which you split the head of
helmeted abomination! Who helped Paul
•hake the brnaen-gated heart of Felix?
Who acted like a good aatlor when all the
crew howled in the Mediterranean ship
wreck? Who helped the martyrs to be
firm when one word of recantation would
have unfastened the withes of rhe stake
and put out the kindling Are? When the
night of the soul came on and all the dem
sens of darkness c»ma riding upon rhe
winds of perdition—who gave strength to
•the soul? Who gave calmness to the
heart? Who broke the spell of infernat
enchantment? He who heard the request
of the villagers. "Abide with us, for it is
toward evening.”
Oih* of rhe forts of France was attacked
and the outworks were taken before night.
The besetglng army lay down, thinking
there wiu but little to do in the morning,
und that the soldiery In Che fort eouid be
easily made to surrender. But during the
night, through a back stairs, they escaped I
into t-he country. In the morning the br
•eiging army sprang upon the battle
ments, but found that their prey was gone.
80. when we are assaulted in temptation, I
there la always some secret stair by which
we might get off. God will not allow us I
to be tempted above what we are able,
vtit with every tetnptat«m will bring a
way of escape that we may be able to
bear It.
The prayer of the text la appropriate for j
nil who are anticipating sorrow The
greatest folly that ever grew on thia |>lan
et is the tend May to borrow trouble; but
there are times when approaching sorrow
is so evident that we need to be making
aiweta) prc{x<rattnn for its coming.
One of your children has lately txvome
a favorite. The cry of that child strikes
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deeper Into the heart than the cry of all
the others. You think more about it. You
give it more attention, not because it is
any more of a treasure than the others,
but because it is becoming frail. There is
something in the cheek, in the eye and in
the walk that makes you quite sure that
tihe leaves of the flower are going to be
scattered. The utmost nursing and medi
cal attendance are ineffectual. The pulse
becomes feeble, the complexion lighter,
the step weaker, the laugh fainter. No
more romping for that one through hall
and parlor. The nursery is darkened by
an approaching calamity. The heart feels
with mournful anticipation that the sun
is going down. Night speeds on. It is
toward evening.
You have long rejoiced in the care of a
mother. You have done everything to
make her last days happy. You have run
with quick feet to wait upon her every
want. Her presence has been a perpetual
blessing in the household. But the fruit
gathers are looking wistfully at that tree.
Her soul is ripe for heaven. The gates
are ready to flash open for her entrance.
But your soul sinks at the thought of a
separation. You cannot bear to think
that soon you will be called to take the
last look at that face which from the first
nour has looked upon you with affection
unchangeable. But you see that life is
ebbing and the grave will soon hide her
from your sight. You sit quiet. You feel
heavy-hearted. The light is fading from
the sky. The air is chill. It is toward
evening.
, Tou had a considerable estate and felt
independent. In five minutes on one fair
balance-sheet you could see just how you
stood in the world. But there .came com
plications. Something that you imagined
impossible happened. The best friend you
had proved traitor to your Interests. A
sudden crash of national misfortunes
prostrated your credit. You may to-day
be going on in business, but you feel
anxious about where you are standing,
ana fear that the next turning of the
wheel will bring you prostrate. You fore
see what you consider certain defalca
tion. You think of the anguish of tell
ing your friends you are not worth a dol
lar. You know not how you will ever
bring your children home from school.
You wonder how you will stand the sell
ing of your library or the moving into a
plainer house. The misfortunes of life
have accumulated. You wonder what
makes the sky so dark. It is toward even
ing.
Trouble is an apothecary that mixes a
great many draughts, bitter and sour and
nauseous, and you must drink some one
of them. Trouble puts up a great many
packs, and you must carry some one of
them. There is no sandal so thick and
well adjusted but some thorn will strike
through it. There is no sound so sweet
but the undertaker’s screw-driver grates
through it. In this swift shuttle of the
human heart'some of the threads must
break. The journey from Jerusalem to
Emmaus will soon be ended. Our Bible,
our common sense, our observation reiter
ate in tones that we cannot mistake, and
ought not to disregard, it is toward
evening.
Oh, then, for Jesus to abide with us. He
e eetens the cup. He extracts the thorn.
He wipes the tear. He hushes the temp
est. He soothes the soul that flies to him
for shelter. Let the night swoop and the
euroclydon cross the sea. Let the thun
ders roar—soon all will be well. Christ
In the ship to soothe his friends. Christ
on the sea to stop its tumult. Christ /n
the grave to scatter the darkness. Christ
In the. heavens to
ail-such. Jlis a-m* will 'Enclose them, his
grace comfort them.'hTf Tight cneer them,
his sacrifice free them, his glory enchant
them. If earthly estate takes wings, he
will be an Incorruptible treasure. If
friends die, he will be their resurrection.
Standing with us in the morning of our
Joy and in the noonday of our prosperity,
He will not forsake us when the lustre has
faded and it is toward evening.
Listen to Paul’s battle-shout with mis
fortune. Hark to mounting Latimer’s
fire-song. Look at the glory that has rest
the dungeon and filled the earth and heav
ens with the crash of the falling manaclea
of despotism, And then look at those who
have tried to cure themselves by human
prescriptions,. attempting to heal gan
grene with a patch of court-plaster, and
to stop the plague of dying empires with
the quackery of earthly wisdom. Nothing
can speak peace to the soul. Nothing can
unstrap our crushing burdens, nothing can
overcome our spiritual foes, nothing can
open our eyes to see the surrounding
horses and chariots of salvation that fill
all the mountains, but the voice and com
mand of him who stopped one night at
Emmaus.
The words of the text are pertinent to
us all, from the fact that we are nearing
the evening of death, I have heard 1t said
that we ought to live as though each mo
ment were to he our last. I do not believe
that theory. As far as preparation is con
cerned, we ought always to be ready; but
we cannot always be thinking of death,
for we have duties in life that demand our
attention. When a man is selling goods
it is his business to think of the bargain
he Is making. When a man is pleading tn
the course it Is his duty to think of the
interests of his clients. When a clerk is
adding up his accounts it is his duty to
keep his mind upon the column of figures.
He who Alls up his life with thoughts ot
death is far from being the highest style
of Christian. I knew a man who use 4
often to say at night, “I wish I might die
before morning!" He became an infidel.
But there are times when we can and
ought to give ourselves to the contempla
tion of that solemn moment when to the
soul time ends and eternity begins. We
must go through that one pass. There is
no roundabout way, no by-path, no cir
cuitous route. Die we must; and it will
be to us a shameful occurrence or a time
of admirable behavior. Our friends may
stretch out their 'hands to keep us back,
but no imploration on their part can hin
der us. They might offer large retainers,
but death would not take the fee. The
breath will fall, and the eyes will close,
and the heart will stop. You may hang
the couch with gorgeous tapestry, but
what does death care for beautiful cur
tains? You may hang the room with the
finest works of art, but what does death
care for picture*? You may fill the house
with the wailings of widowhood and or
phanage. does death mind weeping?
Thia ought not to be a depressing theme.
Who wants to live here forever? The
world has always treated me well, and
every day I feel less and less like scolding
and complaining. But yet I would not
want to make this my eternal residence.
I love to watch the clouds, and bathe my
soul In the blue sea of heaven; but I ex
pect when the firmament is rolled away
as a scroll 'to see a new heaven, grander,
higher and more glorious. You ought to
be willing to exchange your body that
has headaches and sideaches and weak
nesses Innumerable, that limps with the
stone-bruise, or festers with the thorn,
or flames on the funeral pyre of
for an Incorruptible body and an eye that
blinks not before the jasper gates and
the great white throne. But between that
and this there is an hour about which
no man should be reckless or foolhardy.
I doubt not your courage, but I ten you
that you will want something better than
a strong arm. a good alm and a trusty
sword when you come to your last bat
tle. You will need a better robe than
any you have in your wardrobe to keep
you warm in that place.
Circumstances do not make so much dif
ference. It may be a bright day when
you push off from th* planet, or it may be
a dark night, and while the owl is hoot
ing from the forest. It may be spring,
and your soul may go out among the
blossoms, apple orchards swinging their
censers in the way. It may be winter,
and the earth in a snow shroud. It may
be autumn, and the forests set on fire
by the retreating year; dead nature laid
out in statq. It may be with your wife's
baud in your band, or you may be in a
Strange hotel with a servant faithful to
the last. It may be in the rail train, shot
off the switch and tumbling in long re
verberation down the embankment—crash!
crash! I know not the time; I know not
the mode; but the days of our life are
being subtracted away, and we shall come
down to the time when we have but ten
days left, then nine days, 'then eight days,
then seven days, six days, five days, four
days, three days, two days, one day,
Then hours; three hours, two hours, one
hour. Then only minutes left; five min
utes, four minutes, three minutes, two
minutes, one minute. Then only seconds
left; four seconds, three seconds, two sec
onds, one second. Gone! The chapter of
life ended! The book closed! The pulses
at rest! The feet through with the jour
ney! The hands closed from all work.
No word on the lips. No breath in the
nostrils. Hair combed back to lie undis
heveled by any human hands. The mus
cles still. The nerves still. The lungs
still. The tongue still. All still. You
might put the stethoscope to the breast
and hear no sound. You might put a
speaking-trumpet to the ear, but you
could not wake the deafness. No mo
tion; no throb; no life. Still!
So death comes to the disciple! What
If the sun of life is about to set? Jesus
is the day-spring from on high; the perpet
ual morning of every ransomed spirit.
What if the darkness comes? Jesus is the
light of the world and of heaven. What
though this earthly house does crumble!
Jesus has prepared a house of many man
sions. Jesus is the anchor that always
holds. Jesus is the light that is never
eclipsed. Jesus is the fountain that is
never exhausted. Jesus Is the evening
star, hung up amid the gloom of the
gathering night!
You are almost through with the abuse
and backbiting of enemies. They will call
you no more by evil names. Your good
deeds will no longer be misinterpreted nor
your honor filched. The troubles of earth
will end In the felicities! Toward evening!
The bereavements of earth will soon be
lifted. You will not much longer stand
pouring your grief in the tomb, like Rach
el weeping for her children or David
mourning for Absalom. Broken hearts
'bound up. Wounds healed. Tears wiped
away. Sorrows terminated. No more
sounding of the dead march! Toward
evening. Death will come, sweet as slum
ber to the eyelids of the babe, as full
rations to a starving soldier, as evening
hour to the exhausted workman. The
sky will take on Its sunset glow, every
cloud a fire-psalm, every lake a glassy
mirror; the forests transfigured; delicate
mists climbing the air. Your friends will
announce it; your pulses will beat it: your
joys will ring it; your lips will whisper
it: “Toward evening!”
DIRECT FROM CUBA.
Two Patriots Are Picked Up by a
Key Wert Pilot.
Key West, Flq., Aug. 2.—This afternoon
about 2 o’clock the pilot boat Glance
returned to port, having picked up a
small boat twenty-five miles out in the
gulf, with Commander Joaquin Del
gado, Lieut. Femapdo de Velasco and
a Spanish boatman, they having left
Cuba’s shore last Friday night. Satur
day morning they fell in with a Norwe
flan bark, which took them on board and
roughr them over. The boat they .left
Cuba in being in fe.lgjky condition, tfte
Captixtn of the bAfe hauged them a
belter ont. •**
Commander Delgado brings important
dispatches for the Cuban junta.
Being interviewed, he said that pro
visions were very scarce in the Pinar del
Rio district, but plentiful in the province
of Havana. He said that battles are of
dally occuiTfmce in Pinar del Rio, and
that the province, with the exception of
the capital, is In the hands of the insur
gents.
Lieut. Velasco is a member of Gen.
Zaya’s staff. Being asked about the re
ported death of Zayas he stated it was a
lie. He said that he left Zayas on Friday,
and that he was well. He claims that the
report started from the fact that a young
man was killed a few days ago, who bore
some resemblance to Zayas, and the
Spaniards, eager to spread such a report,
grasped at the fact of the resemblance,
to the report that Gen. Zayas was dead.
Delgado and party left Cuba from Ma
rlel, and just as they were about to leave
three Spanish soldiers came upon them
when a hand to hand fight took place.
Delgado and his companions killed the
three. The blood-stained machetes cap
tured from the Spaniards are now in the
possession of a Cuban club in this city.
Both gentlemen are well armed, and
their weapons bear the signs of work done
for the cause of "Cuba llbre.”
AN UNFORTUNATE~BOIJT.
HeprenenisHve Hammon of Rich
mond Wounds His Brother.
Augusta, Ga, Aug. 2.—Henry C. Ham
mond, a member of the last legislature
from Richmond county, came near se
riously Injuring his brother, Alfred, In a
friendly wrestling contest this afternoon
at the family homestead in Beech Island,
S. C., a few miles from Augusta.
The two young men were spending Sun
day under the parental roof, and during
the afternoon got to badgering each other
about their physical prowess. The result
was a catch-as-catch-can wrestling bout
in th© yard. The athletic legislator threw
his brother heavily to the ground, and
when he atose, it was found that he had
sustained a double dislocation of his right
elbow. Hon. Henry Hammond rode hast
ily to town and carried a surgeon to the
aid of his suffering brother.
Mr. Hammond is a noted athlete. He
first challenged the attention of this com
munity by swimming back and forth
across the Savannah river opposite the
city five times without touching on either
bank and without being borne by the cur
rent below a point named tn the wager.
He performed the feat in the presence of
hundreds of spectators who lined the river
bank and cheered the sturdy swimmer.
Mr. Hammond can ride like a circus rjjj
er. He thinks nothing of standing erect
on his horse’s back while in a brisk run.
or of jumping off to the ground and vault
ing again to his back without stopping
his horse. His brother is also a muscular
athlete, but wax unfortunate IntcAiay's
contest.
“HIS finger“slipi>ed.”
That Is How Goldina Said He Came
to Shoot Charley Davis.
Quitman, Ga., Aug. 2.—A negro named
Charley Davis was shot, in the upper part
of the county yesterday, by Ira Golding,
a young farmer of this county. The ne
gro had stolen a horse and buggy in
j Lowndes county several days ago was
pursued by a posse, of which Golding
was a member, and captured in a negro
house on Judge Creech’s plantation in
•rhls county.
When he spied the officers the darky
started on the run. Golding called to him
to halt, but he increased his speed, and
Golding put a load of buck shot in his
arm and shoulder. The wounds are se
vere. but will not prove fatal. Golding
claims his finger slipped from the ham
mer while he was cocking his gun, and
that the shooting was accidental.
•’Cyclone'” Davis for Congress.
Texarkana. Tex.. Aug. I—" Cyclone”
Davis, the people’s party leader, was yes
terday nominated for congress by the i>op
ulists’of the Fourth district to succeed D
B. Culberson.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY. AUGUST 3, 1896.
“NEARER MY GOD TO THEE.”
THIS SWEETEST OF HYMNS ASKED
FOR BY THE SUFFERERS.
Chimed by the Bells of the Church
of the Ascension in Atlantic City
It Moves the Victims of the
Wreck to Tears—Preparations for
a Thorough Inquiry by the Coro
ner—The Wreck Still the Subject
of All Thought at the Popular Re
sort.
Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 2.—Up to this
evening there had been no further deaths
among the victims of Thursday’s rail
road collision lying at the sanitarium. On
the contrary, there was a marked im
provement in the condition of all but
two or three. Mrs. Faunce Fralinger of
Philadelphia, whose leg was amputated,
for whom no hope was entertained, was
much better to-day, and now has a chance
for life.
Miss Brannln of Millville, and Frank
Morele are hovering between life and
death, •with small prospects of living. As
was requested by some of the wounded,
the chimes in the adjacent Church of
the Ascension this morning played
“Nearer My God, to Thee,” and as the
sweet strains of the familiar hymn pealed
out the maimed and wounded men and
women listened reverently to the air.
Some were deeply moved, and Mrs. Fra
linger shed tears as the hymn recalled
memories of other times and places where
she had heard it when it lacked the dread
significance it had this morning.
Coroner William McLaughlin is thor
oughly in earnest in his determination
to sift the accident to the bottom and
to fix the blame for It where it belongs.
He has issued subpoenas for twenty-five
or thirty witnesses, and he proposes that
any of these whose testimony is material
to the developments of the facts shall
come before the jury and he said this af
ternoon that he expects that the inquest
will consume two or three days, but that
he will take a month to do it if so
long a time should be necessary to a
full inquiry. The most important wit
nesses will be called to-morrow. Among
these will be George Houser, the signal
tower man, who gave the right of way
to the excursion train and the danger sig
nal to the Reading express, and who is
now under ?500 bail to answer for his ap-
■ pmraiiock Engineer Greiner of the excur
sion traitt, Flremtm Hallihan of the Read
ing express train, and Superintendents
Deice and Dayton of the Reading and
West Jersey railroads. The inquest will
be conducted in Odd Fellows hall, and it
is expected a large crowd will want to hear
the testimony.
Coroner McLaughlin this afternoon
sorted and labeled by name the property
of the people killed in the wreck. In
the collection are a dozen watches, some
bettered oqLpf gll a»tuind others tin*
Tnjui’ea, lockets, iiitgs ab‘>uf $3tX» In
money. These articles will returned
to the relatives of the dead upon proper
identification.
The fund started by hotel guests and
cottagers for the victims of the accident
was swelled to-day to over S4OO by furfher
contributions.
City council holds it regular meeting
to-morrow night, and some notice will
probably be taken of the accident and its
causes and a resolption of sympathy and
condolence passed for those who suffered
by it.
A big accident of any kind nearly al
ways brings out the curious fact that
people are constantly disappearing and
leaving no trace behind them. Since
Thursday the Atlantic City authorities
have received a number of Inquiries for
missing people whom their relatives feared
might have gone to Atlantic City and
been killed or hurt In the wreck.
In nearly every case none of the dead
or injured bore the slightest resemblance
to the person sought.
FARR’S FUNERAL.
The Dead Engineer Laid by Loving
Randi in. His Grave.
Camden, N. J., Aug. 2.—There has not
been a funeral in Camden for years that
has attracted public attention to so greatr
a degree as that of Edward W. Farr, en
gineer of the express train which collid
ed with the excursion train on the Atlan
tic City meadows Thursday, which oc
curred this afternoon from the residence
of his brother, Charles W. Farr, at 1230
Mount Vernon street.
From 10 o’clock in the morning until 3
o'clock in the afternoon there was a
throng of nearly 5,000 people around the
little house in which the body lay, and a
steady stream of people passed through
the house to view the remains. The sur
vives were Conducted by the aged Rev.
J. H. Sowden, a superannuated minister
of the Union Methodist Episcopal churcn,
who has been a lifelong friend of the
family, and Rev. J. H. Saur of the Eighth
Street Methodist Episcopal church, of
which Farr was a member when he lived
in Camden.
The funeral procession to Evergreen
cemetery was headed by fifty members of
Ottawa Tribe, Improved Order of Red
Men of Camden, to which Farr belonged.
Representatives of a half dozen other
lodges of Red Men and other societies were
also in line. There was a crowd of 2,000
people at the cemetery. The widow, who
had to be carried to and from the carriage
behind the hearse, gave way completely
when the body was lowered to the grave,
and her hysterical cries and last “good
byes” to her husband were distressing to
witness.
A short burial service was read by the
Rev. Sowden, and then the lodge rituals
were gone through. Past Supreme Com
mander Charles Ellis read the Red Cross
liturgy, and Prophet Joseph E. Mowry of
Ottawa Tribe, conducted the distinctive
burial service of the Red Men.
The members of the order each dropped
a Sprig of evergreen, emblematical of im
mortality. into the grave, and at the last
word spoken “Farewell,” a snow white
dove was set at liberty over the bier. In
the Red Men’s ritual the flight of the bird
is typical of the flight of the soul to spirit
land.
BI RYB’G THE DEAD.
Eleven Fnnernls nt Bridgeton—A
Day of Dreadful Gloom.
Bridgeton. N. J., Aug. 2.—The bodies of
eleven victims of the railroad collision
in Atlantic City were buried from this
city to-day; one was buried yesterday,
to-morrow there will be four more fu
nerals, and on Tuesday nine. Thus, if no
more succumb to their injuries, there
will have been twenty-eight deaths from
among this city's population. Those
buried to-day were H. Frazier Beil and
wife, Charles Seoy. Sr., and his son,
Charles; Joshua Earnest. Deputy County
Clerk Richard W. Tver, chard and his
wife; Joseph Peters and his son Morris
and James Bateman and his wife.
There were so many funerals that the
facilities for burial -were overtaxed
Hearses did treble duty and carriage driv
ers carried as many as four separate
groups of mourners to the cemeteries, i
Great crowds, largely made up of tearful
women, gathered in the streets outside
the funeral houses, flocked in groups
about the old stone church,
Broad church and Overbrook cemeter
ies, w’here to-day’s interments occurred.
There were expressions of sorrow for the
dead, words of sympathy for the suffer
ing, and ready offers of succor to the
bereaved. Fortunately, though, there
are very few, if any, cases of real need
so far as known. The victims of the hap
less disaster were, in almost all cases,
so situated as to leave no destitution be
hind, although there may be one or two
cases calling for assistance.
In the churches was the deepest sorrow,
for in almost every case the dead was a
member of some one of them. The
preachers with choked voices drew les
sons from the fearful wreck, but while
one looked upon it as a visitation of Prov
idence, called forth by the wickedness of
thousands who were drifting rapidly to
perdition, another said it was nothing
more nor less than a calamity due to gross
carelessness on somebody’s part.
Another took the middle ground, and
spoke of the crash as an appalling disater
which carried its own lessons of fortitude
and Christian forbeairance and developed
the love and sympathy for this communi
ty from the wide world.
One of the saddest cases was that of
Seoy’s. The mangled body of the father
was left in the hearse, while that of the
son was carried into the house while the
services were being held. Within the
dwelling there were moans and laments
from the stricken widow and mother, and
deep wallings from her seven fatherless
children. People wept for sympathy of
this sorely afflicted woman, whose deep
distress carried sorrow to every heart.
Amid it all there arose the soft cooing of
an Infant, a three-weeks-old child, the
youngest of the Jamerless flock.
As the white casket containing her
boy’s remains was carried out to the sec
ond hearse, the poor woman, leaning on
an elder son, moaned, “Oh, why should
It have happened. Oh, can I give them
up?”
For many a year Sunday, Aug. 2, 1898,
will be remembered in Bridgeton as a day
of mourning and sorrow.
TRAMPS TAKE THE TRAIN.
Side tracked After Flighting a
Freight Crew They Take a Pas
senger.
Alpena, S. D., Aug. 2.—Trainmen and
trairfps engaged in a pitched battle here
yesterday afternoon with coupling pins,
coal and stones for weapons. Car win
dows were broken in by the flying missiles
and several of the combatants were in
jured, but none seriously. This is the sea
son of the year that the country herea
bouts is overrun with the migratory ho
boes on their way to the harvest fields cf
South Dakota.
The freight train from the south which
reached here yesterday morning had a
cargo of about 160 of the species. They
came from lowa and Nebraska, having
boarded the train at Sioux City, and in
tended to go through to the wheat fields
without paving «nj“ fe««f There Ifc a »K<j.
track, as well as a whtteF'Uink/ at Al
pena, and the trainmen determined to
make a flying switch after taking water
and leave the cars containing the tramps
for the town to dispose of the easiest way
possible. The 150 toilers, however, were
not agreeable to accepting the hospital
ity of Alpena, and divined the scheme of
the trainmen about the time the brake
man turned the switch.
This was the signal for hostilities and
the tramps at once made an onslaught en
masse on the train men. The latter
grabbed coupling pins and all the loose
contrivance at hand to repulse the attack
and the tramps picked up rocks and
chunks of coal. In the melee several of
the tramps were knocked down and bare
ly escaped being run over by the cars. In
the end, the train men beat off the attack
ing party, and left them in the hands of
the town.
The sidetracked tramps waited for the
north-bound passenger train last evening
and when it arrived, took possession of it,
determined to continue their journey, and
they wore taken as far as Wolsey, a town
seventeen miles north of here.
THE TAILORS' STRIKE.
Some Riots Yesterday Morning.
The Strikers Stand Firm.
New York, Aug. 2.—Rioting was the
chief feature of the tailors’ strike on the
east side to-day, and although there were
but few arrests made, Acting Capt. Hogan
kept his reserves ready to quell any dis
turbance that might occur.
On account of the contractors’ associ
ation deciding at a meeting on Saturday
night to open their shops to-day and to
■take union or non-union men to work the
Brotherhood of Tailors had committees
in front of every shop at 5;30 o’clock in
the morning, and as the men came to
work, tried to pursuade them to join the
strikers. In most cases the committees
were successful, but not without several
small fights, w’hich the police quickly
stopped. »
When Leader Schoenfeld was seen and
asked what he thought the outcome of the
present situation would be, ’he replied:*
“The situation to-day Is much better than
I ever expected after a ten days’ strike,
and my men are mere determined than
since they went out. I am almost positive
that the contractors will realize in a few
days that if they care to run their shops
they must settle their differences with
the Brotherhood of Tailors.”
During the afternoon it was figured that
about 1,600 non-union men who were going
to work this morning had joined the
strikers.
All the shops that signed the agreement
with the brotherhood were working dur
ing the day, and took on about 1,300 of
the strikers. From reports received from
Brooklyn and Brownsville it was learned
that the men are still out.
BIG FIRE AT CRAMPS.
The Paint Shop and Most of Its
Valuable Contents Burned.
Philadelphia, Aug. 2.—The big yards of
the Cramps Ship and Engine Building
Company were last night the scene of a
fire which, before it could be extinguished,
swept out of existence the great paint shop
with most of its contents, entailing a loss
of about $40,000, which, however, is fully
cohered by Insurance. The burned struc
ture was a frame, 200 feet long, by 90 feet
wide.
The splendid steam launch of the bat
tleship lowa was receiving its finishing
touches in the paint shop, but a gang of
men rushed in and pulled It out scarcely
a moment before the roof fell in.
The building contained a big stock of
paints, oils and varnishes, as well as all
the fancy and hard wood fittings that are
to go into other vessels in course of con
struction at the yards. All these were de
stroyed.
A Tornado In Tennessee.
Nashville, Tenn.. Aug. 2.—Reports from
Saturday night’s storm, which passed over
Nashville, indicate great damage to crops
and trees in this vicinity. It was the
most intense combination of tornado and
cloudburst that has ever visited this sec
tion.
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JONES ON THE SITUATION.
HE IS SATISFIED WITH THE PROG
RESS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Denies Having- Replied ito Mr. Peck's
Suggestion That “to Sacrifice Se
vrall Would Be Bryan’s Salva
tion”—Chicago's Newspapers Are
More Than Mr. Jones Can Stand.
Headquarters Will Be Selected
and the Committee Named on the
11th.
Washington, Aug. 2.—Senator Jones of
Arkansas, chairman of the national dem
ocratic committee, arrived in Washing
ton at noon to-day, and after a few hours’
rest at his residence, went down to the
headquarters of the democratic congres
sional campaign committee, where he had
an hour’s talk with Secretary Gardner,
who had come to town from his summer
home at Laurel, Md., to meet him.
To-night the senator said that he was
not yet ready to announce the executive
committee, although it was possible that
he would name several of the members
in a day or two. He had practically made
up his mind as to some of them, but he
did not care to disclose them to-night.
Perhaps the executive committee would
not be announced, or at any rate, com
pleted, until the full meeting of the na
tional committee in New York on Aug.
11. At that time the location of the na
tional campaign headquarters would
also be selected and in all prob
ability the selection would not
be made before that time. The sena
tor’s choice for headquarters was
about evenly divided between
Washington and Chicago. He recognized
great advantages in each and some dis
advantages.
There was no democratic morning paper
of prominence in Chicago and the others
there, he said, were dishonest, worse, in
fact, than in any city in the country. He
thought he could rely on the dissemina
tion of fair reports from Washington, for
although no democratic paper is printed
here, the newspapers in the national cap
ital were fair and the machinery for news
dissemination was unequalled.
With regard to the insinuation of W.
L. Peck, in the Atlanta Journal yester
day, that he (Chairman Jones) had ex
pressed willingness to sacrifice Sewall and
urge Watson’s nomination, the senator
said to-night it was utterly baseless. He
had received a note from Mr. Peck stating
that Watson’s nomination would be the
salvation of Bryan and he had not answer
ed it or paid any attention to it. He had
been in St. Louis during the populist con
vention, but had never gone to any of its
sessions, nor participated in its work.
The senator says he sees nothing but
indications of democratic success
wherever he goes, and that far from any
possibility of the reaction the gold hugs
are relying on, the silver ckase 'continues
to show' a healthy and rapid growth.
Those people who are looking for a reac
tion get their Information from the same
sources that announced a year ago and
up to a few months ago, that the silver
lunatics were all dead or dying. These as
surances in New York papers, he further
said, put the gold bugs off their guard,
they quit working, and the free silver
organization, which dated practically
•from the passage of the Sherman repeal
act, kept diligently at work with the
field to themselves. If the gold bugs
wanted to sit back and await a reaction
so much the better, and he was willing
they should try it.
Senator Jones says he will remain itj
Washington all the week. It is expected
many prominent democrats will meet him
during that time, Including Senator Gor
man, who usually spends Mondays in
town. It is predicted that soon after see
ing Senator Gorman, Chairman Jones will
announce the executive committee, or part
of it, and that a decision will be reached
as to whether an advisory committee
will be needed this year.
WILL WAIT FOR THE POPS.
Kansas Democrat* Will Make a
Trade With Them.
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 2.—Ex-Senator John
Martin, a leader of the Kansas democracy,
is authority for the statement that the
democratic state convention at
Hutchinson Tuesday will nomi
nate no candidates for state
officers, but that action will be de
ferred pending the action of the populist
convention, which will meet at Abilene on
Wednesday, and that the nominees of the
Abilene convention will then be indorsed
by the democrats.
As to presidential electors, according to
Mr. Martin, there will probably be a fair
division, representation being given to
each of the several political organizations
favorable to free silver legislation. The
electors so nominated will be instructed
to vote for Bryan and for either Sewall or
■Watson, whichever has the majority of
votes cast in the United States.
TRYING TO DEFEAT MORRILL.
It Is Claimed Thus He Did Not En
force Prohibition.
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 2.—A new move
was made public yesterday, which has
for its object the defeat of Gov. N. Mor
rill for renomination. Most of the dele
gates to the republican state convention,
which meets in this city Aug. 11, have
been elected, and Gov. Morrill is known
to have a clear majority over all his op
ponents.
A petition addressed to the state con
vention is being circulated generally over
the state, demanding that Morrill be not
placed at the head of the ticket for the
reason that he has neglected to enforce
the prohibition law.
The movement originated in Douglas
county, and the petition has already re
ceived many republican signatures.
HOW TEXAS GOLD MEN TRADE.
They Will Swap the State for the
Electoral Ticket.
Dallas, Tex., Aug. 2,-The gold standard
democrats of Texas yesterday at Corsi
cana resolved not to put out a state
ticket. They appointed a committee to
confer with the populists and the repub
licans. looking to a fusion, republicans
and gold standard democrats to vote for
populist state and county tickets and
the populists to vote for the McKinley
electors. 3
The conference also appointed delegates
to the Indianapolis convention to arrana«
for the putting out of a national gold
standard democratic ticket.
A Lumber Man Fails.
Bay City, Mich., Aug. 2.—Samuel G. M
Gates, a lumberman, yesterday turned
over ail his real and personal property to
the Union Trust Company of Detroit for
the benefit of his creditors.
The table of assets amounts to S3S3 0®)
and the liabilities to >644,000. ‘ '
MONDAYS
AND
THURSDAYS
A MADMAN RUNS AMUCK.
A SUNDAY SCHOOL THE SCENE OF
A SLAUGHTER.
A Prominent Cttlaen of Thoma.
€ onnty Goes Mad and Commits a
Horrible Murder—He Then Tries
ito Commit Suicide und Is Now En
trenched in His Room With Pis
tol, Gun and Razor, and Refuses
to Surrender.
Thomasville, Ga., Aug. 2.—News has jus#
been received here of a most horrible kill
ing which occurred at Metcalfe, ten milea
below here, this afternoon. John T. Rush
in, a well-known and highly respectable
citizen of that place, shot and killed
James F. Lilly, one of the most prominent
men in the county.
The tragedy occurred in the Baptistt
church, where both men were attending
Sunday school. Without a word of warn
ing, Rushin pulled out his pistol and shot
Lilly. Lilly ran out of the house, and
Rushin pursued him, shooting him again
as he went out of the door. Lilly ran a
few steps further and fell, when Rush;#
jumped upon him and cut his throat, al
most severing his head from the body.
Bushin then went to his room and swal
lowed about four ounces of laudanum, butt
vomited it up before it affected him. Ats
last accounts he has a pistol, a shotgun
and a razor in the room and swears he
will not be taken alive.
Sheriff Doss has gone to the scene of
the killing, and it is feared that he will
'have trouble in arresting Rushin, whot
appears to be thoroughly desperate. It la
thought that he will either kill somebody
or kill himself before he will be arrested.
Lilly was one of the best men in the
county, and was held in the highest es
teem by every one. He was for a long
time a member of the board of county
commissioners.
Rushin, it is thought, has become men
tally unbalanced. He owed Lilly some
money, and they had had some troublo
about it not long since, and it is believed
that this bore on his mind until he lose
his reason.
The .affair has created a sensation
where both parties are well known.
FIGHTING ON THE RANGES. f
Sheep Men and Cattle Men of Ore
gon Are Waging War.
Fossil, Ore., Aug. 2.—J. M. Smith, who
arrived here Friday from Canyon City,
brings news of a desperate battle between
sheep men and cattlemen on the Snow
mountain, southwest of Canyon City,
about a week ago.
Mr. Kitchen, employed by the Prince
ville Sheep and Land Company, and two
cattlemen were slain. Another of ihe
sheep men killed was Earnest Shearer, a
4*fihew of Joseph Shearer, a well-known
tvool grower and buyer. For years young
Shearer has been buying and shipping
sheep for his uncle, and on the occasion
of the battle, he, with several others,
including Mr. Kitchen, was driving a
band of sheep across the country to thu
railroad for shipment.
Many “sheen fights” have been reported
this year, which had no foundation in
fact, but the story of Mr. Smouth is gen
erally believed. There has been hard feel
ing for a long time between the cattle
men and sheepmen in Orgon. Numerous
disputes have taken place over the pos
session and use of the ranges, the cat
tlemen asserting that the Sheep drove thu
cattle from the ranges.
SENSATIONAL CHARGES. . ,1
Match Companies in Michigan Gai
to “Wool Palling.”
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 2.—The Diamond
Match Company was enjoined yesterday
by Judge Donovan, in the circuit courtt
from unjust and oppressive interference
with the business of the Improved Match.
Company of Detroit until the latter’s suit
for $150,000 damages against the Diamond
company is decided.
Among the sensational charges brought
by the Improved Match Company is that
of buying and tampering with the com
plainant’s matches by breaking, steam
ing, and otherwise injuring and destroy
ing the quality of the same, and again
placing them on the market; also th*
Intimidation of customers of the Improved,
company to secure the discontinuance of
their purchase. Officers of the Diamond
Match Company here refuse to talk of th#
suit.
TERRITORIAL JUSTICE. ’T I
The Indian Territory Court Uses that
Lash and the Rifle.
South McAllister, I. T., Aug. 2.—The In
dian court sitting at Wetumpka has sen
tenced two men to death for cattle steal
ing and others to undergo the whipping
post for having committed similar of
fenses.
Isaac McGirt, who stole a cow more
than a year ago, will be given 100 lashes
on the bare back, and Lumka Harjo, for
house breaking, will receive 500 lashes.
For his third offense at cattle stealing
Jesse Thlocco was sentenced to death by
shooting. One, Wilson, was convicted of
helping Thlocco and will receive 100 lashes.
Sandy Deacon, who was charged for ths
third time with hog and cattle stealing,
was also given a death sentence.
A COLORED EXODUS TO CUBA. ;
1
Mr. Stewart Says He Has an Army
of Georgia and Florida Negroes.
Chicago, Aug. 2.—A special from Mun
cie, Ind., says: Truman Stewart will saU
in October from Key West, Fla., for Cuba
with over 1,000 colored recruits for the
Cuban army from the states of Georgia
and Florida. Mr. Stewart has personally
interested himself in the cause of the Cu
ban insurgents, and has made all neces
sary arrangements for the transportation
of his soldiers to that island and spent a
good deal of time in the south the past
winter and spring perfecting his plans.
For the benefit of his cause he will have
a grand Cuban festival and band concert
at Selma, Aug. 22.
NEBRASKA’S NOTORIOUS JUDGE.
One Scott <of Omaha Denounces Me-
Kinley and Cleveland.
Kearney, Neb., Aug. 2.—ln a populist
rally here last night. District Judge C. R.
Scott of Omaha caused a sensation when
he, in his speech, classified McKinley and
Senator Sherman with Herr Most, and de
clared that he had sent better men than
President Cleveland to the penitentiary
Judge Scott gained notoriety several
months ago by ordering newspaper men
sent to jail for criticising his course on
the bench. He was elected as a republi
can, but has recently been advocating pop
ulist doctrines.
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